Dreams are more powerful than facts.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.